The chances of overhearing a conversation in Vlashki, a variant of Istro-Romanian, are greater in New York City than in the remote mountain villages in Croatia. That's just one example of how endangered languages still survive in the great ethnic melting pot of New York City.
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Daniel Kaufman, adjunct professor of linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, co-founder of Endangered Language Alliance, founder of Urban Field Station for Linguistic Research in New York City
Richard Mann, Language Division Manager and Language Program Manager in Mauston, WI for the Ho-Chunk Nation
The chances of overhearing a conversation in Vlashki, a variant of Istro-Romanian, are greater in New York City than in the remote mountain villages in Croatia. That's just one example of how endangered languages still survive in the great ethnic melting pot of New York City.
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